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The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

Supreme Court: race cannot be a specific basis for admission

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

CNN

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3.2865 Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2023

⏱️ 79 minutes

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The Supreme Court delivers a huge blow to affirmative action, ruling that race cannot be a specific basis for college admissions. We examine how this will impact higher learning in America. Also, CNN has new reporting on the top Russian general who appears to be missing after the mutiny. Documents indicate he was a secret VIP member of the Wagner mercenary group behind the rebellion. Plus, the former school deputy who failed to confront the Parkland mass shooter is found not guilty on all counts.  To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Happening now the United States Supreme Court delivers a huge blow to

0:07.8

affirmative action ruling that race cannot be a specific basis for college admissions in this country.

0:15.0

The Education Secretary Miguel Cardona joins us live this hour to discuss what this means for higher learning in America.

0:23.7

Also tonight, breaking news out of Moscow.

0:26.2

CNN has exclusive new reporting

0:29.0

on the top Russian general who appears

0:30.8

to be missing after the mutiny,

0:33.4

documents indicating he was a secret VIP member

0:36.8

of the Wagner mercenary group behind the rebellion.

0:41.2

And the former school deputy who failed to confront the Parkland

0:44.2

Mass shooter is found not guilty on all counts. Scott Peterson breaking down in

0:50.1

tears as the verdict was read.

0:53.0

Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world.

0:57.0

I'm Wolf Plitzer, you're in the situation room. Let's get right to our top story the United States Supreme Court ruling that gutted a United States Supreme Court ruling gutting affirmative action in college

1:15.9

admissions. The conservative majority once again upending precedent and prompting a fiery

1:22.3

dissent by liberal justices on the court.

1:25.0

CNN Senior Supreme Court analyst Joan Biscupic is joining us right now, Joan.

1:30.0

How did the conservative majority reach this decision and what are the real world impacts of it?

1:35.0

Well, I'll tell you, Wolf, in the courtroom, it was only the dissenters who talked about the real world impact.

1:41.0

Chief Justice John Roberts takes the bench. He's been trying to get rid of

1:45.2

race-conscious admissions for so long and he announces that the time has come.

1:50.3

He goes through all the problems and prior decisions in how the Equal Protection

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